skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love Firefox.

I use it because no other browser handles 30+ tabs like a champ while only using between 800GB-1.3 GB while still being fast. Chrome uses anywhere between 1GB - 1.8GB. And just look at Chrome's mess. How do I even tell which tabs are which? That's why I really like Firefox's Tab Groups feature. I always have 3 tab groups and it's incredibly easy to switch between them. And then there are great extensions like Tab Mix Plus, NoScript, Firebug...

Moreover, Mozilla is the one company that I really trust. They genuinely care about user privacy, net neutrality etc. Google, not so much.

It's Chrome that makes me yawn.
Link bait title.

"Kiyosaki’s Rich Global LLC filed for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay nearly $24 million to the Learning Annex and its founder and chairman, Bill Zanker."

Money which had long before left Rich Global LLC to Kiyosaki's pocket or his other Corporate entities.
Chrome does well with just three channels: Dev, Beta, and Release (ignoring the Canary channel as a special case of Dev)

Like Aurora is a special case of Nightly? What's the difference? (I'm not familiar with the Chrome dev process)

I support shortening the release cycle (to maybe 4 weeks)

How many bugs are backed out in Beta? It's surprisingly many, which suggests that 12 weeks is quite short.

Having two channels (Aurora and Beta) between dev and release is useful because it widens the user population as the release stabilizes

I'm not sure I agree on this. I mean, are there people running Beta that would run Release if Beta wasn't available? I'd think those people would be on Aurora.

Early adopters that install Aurora or Beta are not representative of the "Joe User" population, who probably suffer from malware, anti-virus software, and older hardware

I'm afraid you're right and this makes chem-spills unavoidable, though this particularly one is sad as it looked entirely avoidable.
Chrome Plating Asia - Chrome Spray Plating
As a fellow The Verge fan - don't forget to mention "On The Verge". I was blown away by quality of this show.
To those saying it isn't working, have you tried waiting? It seems the frames aren't pre loaded, so for the first few seconds of tilting on my iPhone 4s I was just getting a black screen with the occasional flicker.
Facebook Confirms Researcher Collected Countless Phone Numbers
Is it the Four Yorkshireman defence? As in the python/at last the 1948 show sketch.

"Of course, when I were a lad, we had it tough..."
It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.
FB rode a bubble. An IPO is supposed be some mix of (a) like a giant VC round, with various institutional investors instead of VCs. The idea is that the company needs the money to fund growth.
and (b) a chance for early shareholders to cash out, more easily than via private stock sales.

The awkward part is that (a) and (b) tend to contradict each other -- why would you sell your share if the company is growing? (good answer: you need to sell a bit to buy a house. bad answer: you think the company has no upside potential)

If Facebook chose to go public 2 years ago at $20/share, it may well have seen the same hype-driven runup. Or maybe the pre-IPO pre-SEC private market auctions fed a 2-year bubble driving the stock up to ~35 based on wishful thinking and non-SEC-approved financial speculation, and the IPO was the cresting wave that took the stock close to 40 just as the wave broke and reality set in.
PhoneGap: The Shortcut to Mobile App Development
New article by Dino Esposito on Mopapp Blog
Looking Beyond Hype before Leaping to HTML5
New article by Dino Esposito on Mopapp Blog
Codecrap
ZNGA IPO'd last year, and laid bare their entanglement with FB. How could anyone not figure out that the entanglement applied to FB as well?
The New MongoHQ Web Interface
It's unfortunate the employees were not paying attention to what their CEO and Company was saying and doing.

This. Stop coding for a moment and pay attention to the surroundings.

What makes you think a person that's unethical to their customers is going to be ethical to their employees?
Is it just me or is techcrunch's video player the worst thing ever? It starts automatically and when I play pause to stop it , a spinning wheel appears like it's buffering but the video keeps playing...wtf...
Linux Mint perhaps.
Bukowski's 16-bit Intel 8088 chip
16-bit Intel 8088 chip

with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.
A websocket service for realtime web/mobile apps
I'd argue that this is absolutely not a "rousing success" or "play[ing] the game well enough". He used a legal trick to avoid his side of a financial obligation. If all businesses behaved this way then commerce would be impossible.
Isn't one of the main purposes of corporations to shield the private money of the owners? I think you have illusions about economics :-)
In theory this sounds interesting, but it runs up against a fundamental difference between startups and more mature organizations. Startups embrace failure and accept change; mature organizations reject failure and fight change. Therefore to give power to the consumer in this manner is simply not feasible for a major brand that is invested in its existing research and development programs. Outside of the one off marketing stunt, this mode of commerce will only exist in the fringes and by smaller, independent creators geared towards bespoke development.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4637845
Okay, I just did some research on this, and I must have misremembered the title. The closest I can come to where I believe I got this quote is:

"Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare"

http://www.amazon.com/Cape-Horn-Dream-Womans-Nightmare/dp/09...

But I have to say, I've been telling that story for 25 years now, and honestly, I can't be sure the above is the title that contains the quote.
I'm very impressed that works for Yoga studio owners. Do you have anyone balk at the requirements for this such as the bank account?
Well it is a 379,700 USD auto... most people aren't going to own it even if they can afford it.
Big question is: will Silverlight run on websites not whitelisted by Microsoft? Otherwise it's a dirty trick.
I was kind of annoyed when I got the first remark after selecting C, but once I found out they made fun of everything, I actually started to like its criticizing.
Bind onenter event in your Backbone.View
Best prospect for a landlord I think is to set up establishment in a neighborhood near a good school and only rent to students or recent grads working in the area.
Pre-Commerce : Production = Derivative : Hedge Fund

Draw your conclusions.
As a highschooler I was very into Halo and I spent a lot of time on the Bungie.net forums. It was addictive, but not because there was an endless ocean of content; I don't know if I could think of a more useless circlejerk on the net. It was addictive because you were always waiting. Always clicking refresh, a separate tab open for every thread you'd commented in that night. Always hoping as the page slowly rendered that someone had replied.

As we head head first into the future, notifications are continuing on the asymptote towards real-time-all-the-time, which is to say that it's the norm nowadays to get updates on the things you care about, your facebook and your tumblr and your twitter, as quickly as possible, and I just wonder if maybe we've drawn our graph wrong. Because, at the end of the day, the driving forces behind these sites are more about satisfying ego than they are about connecting or friendship or "social", and when you completely remove the need for users to actually go to your site and put in their internet hours to get that dopamine hit that comes from a like or a comment or a reply, you're incentivising people to sit staring at their inbox instead of at your app.

The thing about forums is the grand prize, the little bit of internet satisfaction you get when you see that (1) in the title of a tab, is inseparable from the interaction; you can't know if anyone's talking to you if you don't look at every response. I wasted a lot of time waiting for replies on the Bungie.net forums but, in doing so, I continued to read and comment and engage, opening more tabs to more threads, wearing out my f5, going deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole until I finally made the decision to turn off the monitor and get some sleep.

Last night I went to bed at a timely hour with my phone on my nightstand, nothing on my mind, and full knowledge that if anything I cared about happened, I had something that would let me know.

Just a couple of thoughts I had that are tangentially related to RockMelt...
How to create mobile maps
Silverlight is more dead than Flash and MS killed itby alienating Silverlight developers.
Bootstrap like design without using Bootstrap

Am I the only one to find it out?
Wheel Track - Carbon Wheel Track
Same here. Our first game is at http://noisytyping.com.
How is this different to to Flipboard? This seems like their main competitor and I haven't seen anything yet that looks like an improvement over it.

>> “Go back 25 years to the flashing DOS prompt. That wasn’t accessible to someone like me. What Windows and Mac did was make it computing accessible to wanna-be nerds like me. But today, h t t p colon slash slash is not natural. It seems like something ripe for disruption.”

What a pointless soundbite. No one real has typed h t t p colon slash slash in about 10 years. Google and others before it solved that problem long ago.
Always charge expenses.

Of course, that depends on the expense. Generally I'd say if you need to overnight then it is an expense to charge for - if you're driving for an hour then definitely don't :) (in the UK we can get tax relief for mileage in relation to our business, so I generally don't charge for travel if I have to drive less than 3 hours - otherwise I end up being "paid" twice :D). Taking the piss with expenses (one place I worked hired an consultant analyst who literally charged for everything - including the 30p it cost him to use the toilet at the train station) is as bad as not charging them.

If they want you because you bring value they will happily pay this cost. On the other hand if they are put off by this added fee then they are probably not the sort of client you want - especially as those costs are probably a small portion of what they are paying you for a days work!

On the other hand; if you soak up expenses to get that contract you are a) in the mindset of letting them set the rate (even if they never knew about it) and b) eating into your profits. Neither is a good situation to be in (next time they might want you all week, and that can get expensive fast).

However; I don't know about your situation, but if you don't live in the valley why are you trying to compete in the market there? I live in the countryside in the UK and used to believe my main market would always be London (~3 1/2 hours away by car, less by train). I've learned this is nonsense, and even the nearest towns to me have LOTS of developer work available.

You might also think that being out of the hub means less money. I've also found this to be untrue in practice, because no one works out here (they are all focusing on the big cities). Desperation for quality talent means that often, more money is on the table.
Yes. Many startups have stories
that made the founder realize that
there is a problem that can be solved
Profitably
I've considered selling T-Shirts. How much time do they take to create? How much income do you make, for how much effort?
WhatsApp Web Client
Google Chairman: We'll Have A Billion Android Devices In A Year
Sounds like a rewording of vapourware, big in the 90's games areana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

I therefore predict the next buzzword to be buzzocks, when somebody tries to make a new buzzword and overloads the talk variable :).
You are being pedantic to an extreme I haven't even encountered amongst the worst "grammar nazis" and you are using nothing but FUD arguments. So his reply was "muddied" up by that? The amount of upvotes and comments and people linking to the reply very strongly beg to differ. It is a brilliant reply and I am not a native speaker, even I understood it perfectly well too so he must have done something right.

You do not have a single reason to complain and the sooner you realize that, the better it will be for your own sake.
Pre-Selling http://mixergy.com/sam-ovens-snapinspect-interview/
... so you're telling me to find data before extending data-less guesses in an attempt to refute my assertion?

Seems legit.
London's a big place. Where do you mean?
Does The Document Foundation receive any income from their distribution of LibreOffice?
Ask HN: Paid to go to a conference, but forced to take a day off what to do?
A friend works for an rather successful Italian startup.<p>As a developer, he'll be sent to a good conference this year. They'll pay him hotel and flight ticket. So far so good. But... They force him to take that day off, (holiday!)<p>I wonder how is it with USA/UK startups? If you're paid to go to a conference, will you have to get holiday for that day? What will you do if that happens to you ?
Being an ordinary iOS and Android freelancer paid by the hour or the day (based in Europe), can you give advice on how to get known as the guy who delivers value? How to become visible?

Also, does this kind of value-driven work also work remotely, or do you always travel to customers?
The jsconfeu song lyrics
I think they are suggesting you boot from SD then use USB for long term storage. People have expressed doubts over the longevity of SD cards for sustained IO.

Edit: confirmed with them, USB is optional
Quick and Dirty Node.js Process (Job) Queue
But ePub as a format is open and well understood, and there are XHTML parsers in every language you might care about.
The previous discussion was about Mobile IE10. This blog post is about IE10 on Windows 8, in general.. meaning desktop too.
Yes, I don't want page-breaks in my ebooks. My reader is unlikely to be precisely the size the publisher put breaks on.
YAPL — Yet Another Pinterest Layout
As questionable of a move that is, this kind of excites the 'omg, is flash finally going to die' moment i've been waiting for, for years.
I like those screenshots. :) Let me know on twitter when it's launched @tudorizer
> Learn the language of yours customers. This is something I've really got to work on, I have now idea how business people speak.

Not just their language, but their lifestyle and culture.

A big portion of my clients are Jewish; this is because an early client was Jewish and I learned the little things like... sending emails late on Friday afternoons will rarely get a response till Monday. Or, Mondays are bad days to be in touch because a lot of Jewish holdays fall on them. Etc. etc.

I picked up a ton of clients because word got around that "hey, there's this guy who is easy to work with"

> Their hourly rate does makes my brain melt.

Is that the hourly rate for both of them? (they say they work in "pair programming style"). Given the mass of skills and experience they bring that seems and extremely good rate.
> I get the impression you assume the network effect is something that just happens over night. The network effect is extremely hard to master and takes a lot of money/time to do so. Hence why the fees are as high as they are.

Network Effect as in they use their sizable userbase to prevent any other competition in the space. For online auctions to work you need a large buyer base so it can attract a large seller base.

I never said it was easy or difficult, not even sure you need to "master" it, but who cares? That wasn't even an important point of that sentence, which was that it's difficult to sell anywhere BUT eBay because of the Network Effect

Fees are high because eBay has no idea how to keep earning money except to gouge people. They certainly can't make buyers pay anything so the sellers essentially get dumped with more and more "fees". I am still confused how that relates to the discussion about the Network Effect. They worked hard initially and now they deserve to gouge people who are using their site?

> Care to elaborate? I wasn't under the impression ebay was doing either.[1]

I cannot prove either but how does showing a stock price disprove what I said? They can still lose marketshare and still have a positive stock price. And they continue to make profits because they continue to bleed their sellers dry.

Ask anyone (or I guess, just sellers would be more accurate) if they would use eBay if they had to. They would say, "Fuck No", so why do they use it? Because, Network Effect.
Both the discussions are about the same article and same topic.
So far this is how I manage these:

> o ability to loan to others

I totally boycott DRM'ed books. Period, absolutely non negotiable. Problem solved.

> o physically robust (I've cracked three (3) screens)

I have a metal-cased Sony reader since 2008. It's really, really robust. It's not as good as the latest readers, but good enough nonetheless (and it has two sets of metal-cast page turning buttons).

> o extended reading time

Strange, my Nook Color easily lasts a couple of days and my Sony PRS 3 weeks of avid reading.

> o random-access speeds/location

Yes, this one is unsolved so far, though the Nook color quick page slider is quite good.

> o support for color.

That's why I have both an e-ink and an LCD reader so far. When will readers with Qi screens come?
Didn't think to check the link after i saw the title of 'Mobile Version...', but you're right. Sorry about that DanielRibeiro =)
So I cant use e.g. Flowplayer on my site to show IE people a video?
> That said, London is more expensive.

That depends a _lot_ on where in London.

My 3 bedroom 1000sqft house with a garden in London has a current rental value of about $1600. That's the difference between living in a leafy, relatively unfashionable suburb in the South of London vs. living in one of the enclaves of rich people or hipsters in the centre of town. I have a 45 minute commute to the centre, door to door.
Oh sorry, I have been reading your post a bit sloppy, and transactional memory was just too much of an association with Haskell.
American corporations perhaps. Some countries invoke "veil piercing" if the owners play around like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piercing_the_corporate_veil
Is this supposed to work on the iPad as well? Only seems to work on my iPhone... But it's very cool!
Honestly, this is ridiculous.

1. The vast majority of the games industry borrows heavily from titles which have come before, so Zynga isn't unique in this regard, nor should it be singled out.

2. The establishment of addiction-creating feedback loops is practically a games industry science. Again, this is hardly unique to Zynga.

3. Subjective statements about quality aside, I think it's safe to say that Minecraft has highly addictive qualities, and therefore Notch can't really be put on a pedestal here in the context of your second assertion.
Personally the only reason I go to eBay is to get away from "big sellers".

If it were a free-for-all everyone with a massive inventory would drown out all of the individuals (the core of the site).
I think his point was about the wording, the vocabulary used in the previous comment. I see a lot of hyperbole in HN, and I find the abuse of inappropriate wording revolting (haha, just kidding here). This is probably HN is populated by a lot of very young people whose toughest thing that happened to them so far is to get a bad grade in school or worse to quit college, and who therefore consider that losing a lot of money over something that is nothing but a bet can be heartbreaking.

Using overly emphatic words for not so cruel-bad situations is a bad thing, since you will be at loss for words when something worse happen. That's just a sign of lack of culture. I am not talking about the person who said "heartbreaking" in the first place, just a general observation as to what language is changing into these days.
The thing to understand is that Microsoft's main customers are larger business and government, who have large installations. These organisations tend to be very conservative. They don't like to just deploy software/updates, rather they usually put them on test systems and check that the updates don't affect other software.

I.E is also a lot more integrated into windows then the other browsers. So chrome largely just needs to test that their browser works, Microsft needs to test that that the browser works one each version of windows (Vista/7/8) but also all versions (Pro, Home Basic, home Premium etc), but also for all supported languages (Dutch Windows Pro, Dutch Home Basic etc). In addition they need to test that an I.E update doesn't break other software like installers, Office, popular non Microsoft software that makes use of I.E.

Given that their customers will probably take their time updating it makes sense for Microsoft to very carefully test any updates as a hot patch released 10 hours after a bug is found probably won't be widely deployed any faster then one released 10 days later. And 10 hours probably isn't long enough to test all the software that relies on I.E in some manner.
Congratulation, good work! Anyway, the question was about passive income...I suppose you have to do a bit of marketing, user support, thinking about new features, etc...isn't it then just a business?
UAVs, Property Rights, And Privacy
They're ok for anything but games (for which I use windows anyway), but the power management sucks. I get 3-4.5h with the free driver and 6-7h with the blob.
This is similar to what Tim Ferriss describes in 4-Hour Workweek. He'd create one-page microsites (similar to what Launchrock offers nowadays), buy up proper domains, and then test his product idea by purchasing search engine ads.

Not only could he iterate on product idea by tweaking the search ads and reacting to CTR changes, but visitors to the sites were advised to leave their email, so by the time the product was ready to launch, he'd have a great opt-in list.
Scape: the Brian Eno album that you create
There's a total cost to the company of sending your friend to the conference. It consists of the conference, flight & hotel costs and your salary costs for that amount of days.

This is simply the company offering to pay your friend for the former but not the latter. It's of course nicer to have everything paid, but it's also a better offer than having to pay for the conference and take days off.

As you will be expected to pay for part of this (through taking days off) this is an offer however and he/she can't/shouldn't be forced to accept it.

P.S. Keep in mind that this structure is the most tax-efficient way to sponser said trip to the conference in most European countries.
Sounds like you need a Bayesian network - the junction tree algorithm.

You can send the cheque in the mail. ;)
A repeat post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4612615
Success doesn't prove anyone right, it just shows that the current strategy is good enough. Who knows if executing it differently wouldn't have double or tripled the success.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4612615
I'd guess PayPal would still be a competitive advantage if it were quicker to respond to competitors like Stripe.
What You Can Learn from Celebrities about Social Media
As discussed previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366555
The software development final exam: Networking and systems
Gorgeous. Can't wait to use this on a project.
Global Identity Management begins